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Loftily

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Adverb
  1. 1
    To a great height.

    "[…] trees, most of them bearing blossom or fruit, rose loftily into the air, and extended their broad leaves like parasols to the sun."

  2. 2
    With affectation of grandness.

    ""I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a lofty manner wordnet

Etymology

From lofty + -ly.

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